Dora man takes decades to build it, but he has underground home of his dreams

Jim Mortensen had a plan to beat the high price of oil during the 1974 oil embargo. He’d build an energy efficient underground house. With help from friends and family, Jim Mortensen and his wife Mickey spent about eight years.

Amazing work of architecture! A modern home built essentially underground w/ hillside entrance like this. The unusual house plan was the collaboration btwn Netherlands architects at {SeARCH} &{Christian Muller Architects}.